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Dora Kunz

Dora Kunz (April 28, 1904 – August 25, 1999) was a Dutch-American writer, psychic, alternative healer,[1] occultist and leader in the Theosophical Society in America.[2] Kunz has published around the world in Dutch, English, French, German, Polish, Portuguese, and Spanish. Dora van Gelder was born at a sugar cane plantation named Krebet near Djombang city on East Java in the Dutch East Indies. Her father, Karel van Gelder, was a chemist who ran the sugar plantation, and her mother, born Melanie van Motman, was from a very well-to-do Dutch family as well. Both her parents had been members of the Theosophical Society since 1900 and from the age of 5 meditation became a daily routine. Dora claimed that since she was a child she interacted with ethereal beings and her mother was a strong believer in her clairvoyance. At eleven years old she moved to Mosman, a suburb of Sydney (Australia), to study with someone knowledgeable about her abilities, the then-Anglican clergyman and psychic C. W. Leadbeater, who taught her ways to increase her psychic skills